Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century

As we rush toward the 21st century, former Director of the National Security Council Brzezinski takes time out to issue an "urgent warning" about the current state of global politics. He believes we are in peril of repeating the "megadeath" of this century--a century that has witnessed the slaughter of 187 million people in the name of politics.

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Pagina 34That framework, however, came to be progressively diluted in the course of the modern age. The industrial revolution produced a quantum leap in mankind's
capacity to challenge nature's domination of life. Secular doctrines increasingly ...

Pagina 76In poorer portions of the world, modern communications intensify the awareness
of global injustice on the part of the masses preoccupied with the struggle for
their own physical survival. In the context of global intimacy, a dangerous gap in ...

Pagina 230The modern age, initiated by the French Revolution, placed a premium on the
certainties of the so-called objective truth, spurning subjectivity as irrational. The
failure of the most extreme perversion of that mode of political thought — namely,
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OUT OF CONTROL: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century

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A brilliant and principled analysis of the perilous state of a fractious world as it approaches another millennium. Brzezinski (The Grand Failure, 1989, etc.), director of the National Security ...Citiți recenzia completă

Out of control: global turmoil on the eve of the twenty-first century

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President Carter's former national security adviser has produced his fourth book in ten years. The last one, The Grand Failure ( LJ 4/15/89), chronicled the decline of communism. This time, Brzezinski ...Citiți recenzia completă

Despre autor (1994)

Brzezinski served as National Security Advisor to the President of the United States from 1977-81. He is a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced